Programatically provision users to server.

[Matthew Carriere]

That's awesome. This is a much better option than what I previously  
thought would be necessary to setup a development environment.

Has anyone done this before in any language? Any potential issues to  
watch out for?

Thanks.

On 4-Dec-08, at 12:43 PM, <tnt at kalik.net> wrote:

> You can also browse server related stuff on github. For mysql:
>
> http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/tree/master/raddb/sql/mysql
>
> You can get the schema from there, use it and play with RoR and the
> database without installing freeradius.
>
> Ivan Kalik
> Kalik Informatika ISP
>
>
> Dana 4/12/2008, "Alexandre Chapellon" <alexandre.chapellon at mana.pf>
> piše:
>
>> http://wiki.freeradius.org/SQL_HOWTO
>>
>> http://wiki.freeradius.org/Rlm_sql_mysql
>>
>> Le 04.12.2008 09:03, Matthew Carriere a écrit :
>>> This is great thank you.
>>>
>>> I was trying to find something in the documentation about doing  
>>> this.
>>> Could anyone point me in the direction of documentation that  
>>> outlines
>>> using a MySQL database for authenticating users?
>>>
>>> Is there some kind of schema that the users table must follow?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> On 4-Dec-08, at 1:44 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
>>>
>>>> Matthew Carriere wrote:
>>>>> I am thinking of adding a FreeRadius server to an existing
>>>>> infrastructure in order to provision users through an application.
>>>>
>>>> FreeRADIUS authenticates users... databases provision them.
>>>>
>>>>> I am
>>>>> currently running a WLAN controller connecting several access  
>>>>> points.
>>>>> Currently users are added manually through the WLAN controller
>>>>> interface.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could I add a FreeRadius server and be able to programatically add
>>>>> users
>>>>> to it? I need to be able to do this through a Ruby on Rails
>>>>> application.
>>>>
>>>> Install FreeRADIUS *and* MySQL.  Use a RoR app to provision the
>>>> database.  Use FreeRADIUS to pull user information out of the  
>>>> database,
>>>> and authenticate the users.
>>>>
>>>> Alan DeKok.
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